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When Yamuna’s ‘dead fish will be fresher’
Effluents and apathy have reduced Delhi's lifeline to a sewer. Thousands of fish die annually while the Yamuna's original custodians have nowhere to go. It all feeds into and spurs a climate crisis
Date For Development
UNDP Accelerator Lab India connects innovators with experts in a one-of-its-kind matchmaking event
Stay Hungry Stay Foolish
What happens when you get passion, energy and diversity in the same room?
The shrinking pomfret of suburban Mumbai
Many in Versova Koliwada have a story to tell of dwindling fish – the reasons range from local-level pollution to global-scale warming. Both have combined to bring the impact of climate change to the…
Big city, small farmers, and a dying river
City farmers? Yes, sort of – in the national capital, struggling as a choked Yamuna river and the destruction of its floodplains spur the region’s climate crisis and devastates their livelihoods
'The happy days are now just nostalgia'
In the high mountains of the eastern Himalayas in Arunachal Pradesh, the nomadic Brokpa community is recognising climate change and devising coping strategies based on traditional knowledge
UNDP @ UNCCD COP 14
A snapshot of UNDP's participation at the 14th Conference of Parties to the Convention to Combat Desertification
Beating pollution, one plastic bag at a time
How a female waste picker in Mumbai is doing her part to save the environment
271 million fewer poor people in India
The 2018 Multidimensional Poverty Index provides the most comprehensive view of the many ways in which 1.3 billion people worldwide experience poverty in their daily life. In 10 years, India has…
